Ricky Brangman’s future as St David’s coach is in doubt after a disappointing 2026 campaign in which they were relegated from the Premier Division 50 Overs league and also came up short in their quest to regain the Eastern Counties trophy.

“I haven’t ruled anything out at this point and I’m just very disappointed for the season, but I will get over it and keep moving forward,” Brangman, 65, told The Royal Gazette.

“I have a meeting with the club later on, so I am just going to enjoy my winter, think about things and then just go from there.”

The former Southampton Rangers coach has been urged to stay on.

“I had a meeting with the selection committee and those guys said some good things to me that got me thinking,” he said.

“They don’t want me to leave and some of the players also don’t want me to leave. They told me to hang in there and it’s just one of those seasons.

“I have never been a guy that quits anything. I always put my best foot forward and, like I said, I have a meeting with the club later on and will just go from there.”

St David’s were relegated from the Premier Division 50 Overs league after suffering a 105-run loss to Warwick in their final outing at Lord’s on Sunday.

Brangman cited poor fielding among the primary reasons for his team’s demise, which comes just a year after soaring to great heights in achieving the Premier Division T20 and 50 Overs league double.

“We have been dropping a lot of catches all year and it has cost us where we should’ve knocked teams down cheaper,” he said.

“We get chances and guys are dropping them — and they are not hard catches. Balls are coming straight at guys and they are dropping them — you saw that even in the Eastern Counties. A couple chances we had we should’ve taken.

“Then on Sunday we played against Warwick and they gave us a couple of chances and we dropped them. That’s been going on all year and is what’s been killing us.”

St David’s loss the services of key players such as Tre Manders, Onias Bascome and Kevon Fubler before the start of the season, and were further hindered by the unavailability of players throughout the 2026 campaign.

“We still had a good nucleus of players but we had players going away,” Brangman said.

“A lot of games we played we were not at full strength and we had to bring in other players because some of our senior players were either injured or off island.

“But overall I’m just thankful for all the guys that hung in there and stayed with us. We did the best we can.

“But like I said catches win matches and I’m very disappointed that we dropped a lot of catches over the season.”

St David’s finished second from bottom in the Premier Division 50 Overs with two wins from six matches to take the plunge along with Willow Cuts, who lost all their fixtures.

The islanders were relegated 24 hours after their unsuccessful bid to wrestle the Eastern Counties trophy away from holders Bailey’s Bay in the final, which ended in a draw at Lord’s on Saturday.

However, it is not all doom and gloom for Brangman’s team as they lifted the Premier Division Champion of Champions trophy at the beginning of the season and finished third in the Premier Division T20 competition.

One player the club will no longer have at their disposal next season is experienced all-rounder OJ Pitcher, who announced his retirement shortly after becoming the eighth batter and third from St David’s to score 1,000 runs in the Eastern Counties last weekend.